Social Fear and the Commodification of Terrorism
"Commodifications of fear ultimately rely on manipulation
through nostrums and ignorance.

There is, though, a real front-line of homeland defense:
teachers who refuse to mouth official dichotomies
of good and evil,
students who refuse to accept an uncritical perspective,
and parents who refuse to barricade their homes
against foreign ideas and people.
A radical rejection of social alienage
is at the heart of this homeland defense.
It is an expanded concept of homeland defense which recognizes
that contemporary American social fear derives ultimately
from fear of the global poor and dispossessed,
those with causes for anger.
Western economies have privileged capital over labor,
and have exported the social fears of capitalism —
unemployment, impoverishment,
inadequate health care and education
— to obtain Western prosperity. "